The Quaker Who Walked Into Newgate
In 1813, Elizabeth Fry stepped through the iron gates of London's Newgate Prison and found three hundred women and their children crammed into two rooms....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 112:1-10.
In 1813, Elizabeth Fry stepped through the iron gates of London's Newgate Prison and found three hundred women and their children crammed into two rooms. The stench was unbearable. Guards refused to enter. Yet Fry, a mother of eleven and a devout Quaker, returned the next day — and the day after that. She brought fabric so the women could sew.…
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